Published: Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 12:33 PM.

Hayes is on trial for the first-degree murder of Ackerson in 2011 and accessory after the fact. Her husband, Grant, was convicted of first-degree murder in the case in September.

State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Lolita Chapman said during an initial observation of Ackerson’s apartment, investigators seized her computer and the call log, which began with the date of Aug. 11, 2010.

Chapman, who served 14 years with the Kinston Department of Public Safety before joining the SBI in 2008, testified that on Aug. 23, 2010, there were multiple calls between Amanda Hayes and Ackerson.

Ackerson wrote Amanda Hayes called and called her “psycho crazy” for spending a lot of time researching croup, which Ackerson believed could have been affecting her children. In general, croup is distinguished by a loud, distinctive cough caused by vocal cord inflammation.

Grant and Amanda Hayes and Ackerson shared custody of Grant Hayes and Ackerson’s two children.

Amanda Hayes called because Ackerson sent Grant Hayes an email about the children’s possible illness, but she countered Ackerson’s assertion by saying Ackerson always returned the children to the Hayes’ apartment by doing things like letting them stay out in a water park for too long.

Hayes is on trial for the first-degree murder of Ackerson in 2011 and accessory after the fact. Her husband, Grant, was convicted of first-degree murder in the case in September.

State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Lolita Chapman said during an initial observation of Ackerson’s apartment, investigators seized her computer and the call log, which began with the date of Aug. 11, 2010.

Chapman, who served 14 years with the Kinston Department of Public Safety before joining the SBI in 2008, testified that on Aug. 23, 2010, there were multiple calls between Amanda Hayes and Ackerson.

Ackerson wrote Amanda Hayes called and called her “psycho crazy” for spending a lot of time researching croup, which Ackerson believed could have been affecting her children. In general, croup is distinguished by a loud, distinctive cough caused by vocal cord inflammation.

Grant and Amanda Hayes and Ackerson shared custody of Grant Hayes and Ackerson’s two children.

Amanda Hayes called because Ackerson sent Grant Hayes an email about the children’s possible illness, but she countered Ackerson’s assertion by saying Ackerson always returned the children to the Hayes’ apartment by doing things like letting them stay out in a water park for too long.

Further calls logged showed an increasing amount of conflict between the women. Ackerson wrote Amanda Hayes yelled at her in front of the children.

Ackerson also detailed that she began to feel disconnected and irrelevant after calls between her and her boys – they would be inattentive, and Ackerson said Grant and Amanda Hayes would often act and treat her like she didn’t exist.

As state prosecutors begin to make their case against Amanda Hayes, they called up several other members of law enforcement who laid out specifics of the first steps of the investigation into Ackerson’s disappearance.

Court will resume today as weather permits.

Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 and Wes.Wolfe@Kinston.com. Follow him on Twitter @WolfeReports.